I was lucky to get a copy of this little gem a month back and read it quickly in the week after. As a lover of Little Paris Bookshop, I truly needed another instalment from Nina George. It’s hard to follow up after such an adorable book as Little Paris Bookshop but she has done it. I think it’s very different in structure. The main lady weaves her way through many lives, sprinkling a bit of wonderment as she goes. The introduction is masterful and very soulful. We lost a little along the way as Nina George has done before but it finds it out the other end in a meandering way. I would recommend to those who love reading delightful characters details and stories of love and lose.

An heart-warming story of romance and adventure from the internationally bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP (500,000 copies sold worldwide)

Marianne Messman longs to escape her loveless marriage to an uncaring husband – an artillery sergeant major named Lothar. On a day trip to Paris, Marianne decides to leap off the Pont Neuf into the Seine, but she is saved from drowning by a homeless man. While recovering in hospital, Marianne comes across a painting of the tiny port town of Kerdruc in Brittany and decides to try her luck on the coast.

In Kerdruc, Marianne meets a host of colourful characters who all gravitate around the restaurant of AR MOR (The Sea). It is this cast of true Bretons who become Marianne’s new family, and among whom she will find love once again. But with her husband looking to pull her back to her old life, Marianne is left with a choice: to step back into the known, or to take a huge jump into an exciting and unpredictable future.